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NHL Time on Ice, Average TOI, ES TOI, ES ATOI leader in 2012. Led all d-men in PP TOI in 2012 also.

League-wide: 16th in ES ATOI in 2011, 4th in ES ATOI in 2010, 14th in ATOI in 2008, 16th in ES ATOI in 2008.

10th in the league in total ice time since 2008. He's 6th in points among defensemen since 2005-06 (of that same sample, all of the top-12 were selected in the ATD except for Campbell and XXXXX XXXXXXX).

Top-10 Defensive point finishes since 2008: 2nd, 3rd, 10th

11th among d-men in plus/minus since 2006 (+64).

The smooth-skating Brian Campbell has exploded in terms of prominence and offensive production since the lockout. An excellent skater, Campbell makes a terrific breakout pass and is also a noted puck rusher. He eats an enormous amount of minutes and is extremely reliable. He's played in 82 games (or more) games since the lockout 4 times and 79 games in another season. He once played in 388 consecutive contests. A power play quarterback and excellent puck distributor. Campbell can also play on the penalty kill, though largely on the 2nd unit. More of an offensive defenseman, but has evolved defensively with maturity.

He has consistently gone deep into the playoffs. He's played in 97 playoff games since the lockout (most among all d-men over that stretch...including Nicklas Lidstrom). Only twice has he been bounced in the first round since '06, including being on the wrong end of a double-OT game 7 loss to the eventual Eastern Conference champs in New Jersey in 2012. He won the Stanley Cup in 2010 with Chicago, assisting on the Cup clinching goal and led the playoffs in plus/minus at +11. Campbell had a remarkable junior career with Ottawa going to the Memorial Cup once and taking home many awards including CHL Player of the Year. He was named a First Team All-Star at the 1999 World Junior Championships for Canada.

Campbell is well known as a gentlemanly and sportsmanlike player since his youth. He routinely receives votes for the Lady Byng Trophy and finally won in 2012. He logged the most minutes in the league and was assessed only six penalty minutes all season (!) and one-third of those penalty minutes came from a delay of game penalty. Upon receiving award, Campbell became the first Florida Panther to receive an award that was voted upon by the media or general managers.

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Originally Posted by Buffalo News, Dec. 2, 2007

For the last three seasons, defenseman Brian Campbell has certainly been one of the leaders in the Buffalo Sabres' dressing room...

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Originally Posted by Dan Rosen, NHL.com - Feb. 26, 2008

Campbell, who is one of the best defensemen in the NHL, a two-time All-Star... || Campbell brings his elite skills, including his super speed and ability as a power-play quarterback, to the Sharks, a team that desperately needed a "pick-me-up" in their bid to become a major contender in the Western Conference. || Campbell's ability as a puck-rushing defenseman should also soften the typically aggressive forecheck teams have played against the Sharks.

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Originally Posted by Sharks GM Doug Wilson

I think he's one of the top puck-moving defenseman in the game. We think he'll fit in tremendous for our hockey team. He'll certainly improve our power play and our puck possession game. He's a world class skater. He can move the puck. He can play defense. He's a multidimensional player, and he's had success. He's the type of guy that will fit into the dressing room here

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Originally Posted by James Patrick

He's as good of a momentum skater as there is in the League. As a guy who can be skating backward with the puck, pivot and go forward he carries that momentum incredibly. To wind up and go behind the net, he just comes out flying.

Not known as an overtly physical player...Brian Campbell once scrambled R.J. Umberger's eggs in the playoffs.

seriously though, Kaberle's a pretty good dman here I would think. Very effective PP defenseman on top of some good overall points finishes. Definitely going to have to find a good partner for him though as he's not exactly the toughest customer around. IIRC he finished first the season after the lockout in PP points by dmen.

seriously though, Kaberle's a pretty good dman here I would think. Very effective PP defenseman on top of some good overall points finishes. Definitely going to have to find a good partner for him though as he's not exactly the toughest customer around. IIRC he finished first the season after the lockout in PP points by dmen.

hey! I am not that scary. People should be equally scared to go up against the TDMM/dreakmur tandem, C1958 (can't wait to see what a playoff series with him looks like) or VI (stats be damned!!!!!!!!!!!) Hedberg is not scary per se, because he doesn't have the tendency to be argumentative, but he is just plain good.

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Originally Posted by DaveG

Just looked it up to verify

2005-06 pp points:
Tomas Kaberle - 51P/82G
Nicklas Lidstrom - 50P/80G

so Lids had the better PPG, Kabs the slightly higher total

my bad, I see now that you said PP points.

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Originally Posted by TheDevilMadeMe

Although give us a very rough estimate of when you're going to pick, so we don't keep refreshing this page, heh

He's played in 97 playoff games since the lockout (most among all d-men over that stretch...including Nicklas Lidstrom).

I didn't know that. He has had success at almost every level: Memorial Cup, world juniors champion and tourney all-star, Stanley Cup champion, four-time all-star game participant; I say 'almost' every level because of his lack of adult international competition. I understand he wasn't in world championships because he played so many playoff games at the time, and he wasn't in the World Cup because of simple timing (haven't had one in eight years), but he wasn't on the Olympic team, which only means he wasn't deemed top-6 with truly superstar dmen to choose from. This is a minor point. If anything it just means that an Olympic gold medal would have bolstered his case for ATD worthiness.